Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 14:42:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Jim Thario <jim@thario.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving partitions Message-ID: <14814.11053.612588.948322@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <67616234@toto.iv>
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Jim Thario writes: > I have a 686 running FreeBSD 4.x with a 4 gigabyte hard disk. I'm going > to add a 15 gigabyte disk to the machine and split the space on this > disk between /var and /usr/home. Once the drive is installed, > partitioned, formatted, ready and willing - is there anything special I > need to consider when copying the directories and files over? > > Here is my process: mount the new /var parition as /newvar, for > instance, and do a "cp -Rp" to copy everything over from /var to the > /newvar partition. I will do the copy in single-user mode for extra > safety. Next, I would add the entries into /etc/fstab for the new > partition and restart the system. If that works, I will do the same for > /usr/home. > Am I missing anything? Yes - you'll hose hard links. > Is there a better or safer way to move this stuff? Check the FAQ <URL: http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#dmin.html#AEN2922 >. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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